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Jad Abumrad

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And the next thing you heard was... Men.

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My grandmother.

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This sort of frail, gentle voice.

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And she started to unpick what was being transmitted to her.

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Remember that line again was?

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It's amazing to listen to.

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Over 60 years later, listening to those tapes, I'm still on the edge of my seat.

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And right at the end.

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Almost every time it would be 100% correct.

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It just was this feeling inside you that you get going, hang on, what?

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When Jesse heard those broadcasts, his obvious question was, how did they do that?

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Well, this is the question that I wanted to know.

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For so long.

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And there have been many, many theories.

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I mean, they used to get letters in from listeners all the time.

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There's this box of press clippings we found at the bottom of my grandma's closet, and we started going through these press clippings.

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And there were wild theories, like little Morse code transmitters in their teeth.

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I mean, one of the theories I quite liked was someone who wrote in saying there was a green man that ran between their shoulders.

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And he knew this on authority because he also had a green man.